Europe

UN tribunal sentences two for war crimes in Srebrenica enclave

17 January 2005
Two Bosnian Serbs were sentenced today by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for their roles in the massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995.
UNMIK chief Søren Jessen-Petersen

UN urges resumed talks between Kosovo and Serbia on conflict’s toll of missing

14 January 2005
The United Nations administrator for Kosovo today called for a resumption of direct talks between Serbia and the province to resolve the issue of more than 3,000 people still missing five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drove out Yugoslav troops amid ethnic fighting between Albanians and Serbs.

Universal Postal Union gets new chief, ready to keep letters coming in digital age

14 January 2005
The Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations specialized agency that is the world’s second-oldest international organization, got a new Director General today dedicated to keeping letters and parcels flowing smoothly around the globe even as the digital age is in full flight.

Bomb explosion kills UN police officer in Kosovo

13 January 2005
A United Nations police officer in Kosovo was killed today in a bomb explosion, leading the chief UN envoy for the ethnically-divided province to condemn the attack as a "despicable act that would certainly be repudiated by the people of Kosovo."

UN emergency food aid programme looks to new EU members for help

13 January 2005
With the number of malnourished people rising and Western donor countries reducing food aid, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is holding a two-day meeting in Rome, starting today, to appeal to the 10 new members of the European Union (EU) for help.

UN convenes first-ever conference on mental health in Europe

12 January 2005
With Europe accounting for nine of the top 10 countries with the highest rates of suicide in the world, health ministers from 52 European countries opened a four-day United Nations-sponsored conference today to address mental health problems on a continent that is poorly equipped to cope.

General Assembly to mark 60th anniversary of liberation of Nazi death camps

11 January 2005
The United Nations, founded 60 years ago on the principle of "never again" after the horrors of the Nazi holocaust, announced today that it will hold a special General Assembly session later this month to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps.